Sarah BiddulphLegal Reform and Administrative Detention Powers in China
Part I. Introduction and Conceptual Framework: 1. The problems of legal
reform of police administrative detention powers; 2. The legal field and
the process of legal reform since 1978; Part II. Social Order and
Administrative Detention: 3. Historical antecedents: the 1950s and
administrative detention; 4. Social order, the 'hard strike' and
administrative detention powers; 5. Revival of administrative detention in
the reform era: prostitutes and drug addicts; 6. Re-education through
labour; Part III. Legal Reform and its Impact on Administrative Detention:
7. Building a legal environment for police detention; 8. Supervision of
police conduct: legalisation and contest; 9. Legal reform catches up with
administrative detention; Part IV. Analysis and Conclusion: 10. The field
of law, the force of law and the powers that be.